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...rough, tough Mike Benedum, "greatest wildcatter in the world," wanted just one more big strike. His Plymouth Oil Co. had leased 800 acres in desolate Upton County in western Texas and started to drill for oil. Plymouth drilled down 10,000 ft. and lost $1,000,000 before it quit. That...
...Upton Sinclair, his radical grip long since relaxed . . ." [TIME...
...UPTON SINCLAIR...
...Upton Sinclair, his radical grip long since relaxed, continued to dream up out of newspaper files further scenes from modern history as witnessed by his ubiquitous wonder boy, Lanny Budd...
Anger & Ambition. Three generations later, in 1923, the relationship between Kalyanu's grandson, Jodh Singh, and the new deputy commissioner, Hugh Upton, was more complicated. The district of Garhwal remained the same: the peasants tilled their terraced fields of millet on the mountainsides, drove their sheep and goats to the high, flowering pastures in the spring, sent their women out to gather sticks for the winter fires in the smoky stone huts. Jodh Singh, however, enjoyed the privileges won by his grandfather; he had been to Lucknow University, and he felt it his mission in life to fight...